Very possible that a similar thing that happened with South Vietnam or more similar equivalent, the collapse of the pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan, ...
Actually too successful for many eager leftists. You don't know them? http://img.timeinc.net/time/images/covers/europe/1998/19981012_400.jpg Have rule...
Hardly. Price fixing simply doesn't work. What else is central planning that replaces the market mechanism? If you assume that having rules and legisl...
One doctor who I know said something that I agree with, unfortunately. "Likely we will start getting annual vaccinations for COVID as we get annual va...
Actually, the issue goes far further than just the Rockefellers. That Saudi-Arabia sells it's oil in US dollars and uses American companies is one imp...
Living basically as north as Alaska is, the collapse of the Gulf stream would have an effect here. "Nicest" outcome would be just hotter summers and c...
There is a perfect example of this from my own country. The government brought in price controls in the 1970's which basically crushed the rental mark...
Finnish farmers actually got earlier more subsidies. I think the largest simple reason is that Finland without being attached in any way to the West w...
Well, since the US wasn't involved, the conflict went largely unnoticed. And people will note that millions didn't die in the actual fighting, just in...
The government doesn't interfere all the time and everywhere. Housing prices, the prices of taxi cabs and many other prices are usually left alone. Th...
Well said, Bitter Crank. And I guess because there is social mobility upwards and also downwards, then the color of your skin is the last refuge for t...
Umm...yes. Norway and Switzerland. Now the UK. And that's basically it. Others have been quite OK to join. Perhaps added to the three above is Serbia,...
Of course not! Being a fan of a sports team is something that can bind the rich man and the poor man. These kind of issues that both the poor and the ...
And I'm surely not asking that. Yes. Perhaps the American problem can tried to be explained by an example one of my wife's friends told. This friend i...
Lol, quite a strawman there. Try to take control of the narrative then. I assume you can do even there if it is about something else than race. ? Soci...
And what YOU should try to understand that who make integration happen are those who really desire it ARE THE COUNTRIES THEMSELVES. Not only their eli...
The official line is that they have 21st Century Marxism and it works just well as they aren't fixated to dogmatic principles or take Marxism as a rel...
Yet then how to behave on that stereotype is the issue. And notice yourself that you said "reasonably accurate". As I've said, believing in stereotype...
But they surely won't do it as an EU force on behalf of the EU. They will either do it a) as part of NATO, b) as part of a US lead alliance or c) own ...
Praxis, I think you just informed me from where the structural racism comes from in your country. :up: (Yeah, “MATESMaWLI” would be a great definition...
EU having military power? NATO is different from the EU. You should perhaps prove here that they really instigated the uprising. You see, it's one thi...
This goes a bit to another thread, but... It doesn't have to be so. In fact, if people are more prosperous, they will do and they can do more to fight...
Yes, there is something positive about the NIMBY. Now the socialist system did have a lot of committees and so on, yet what was lacking was the huge t...
Americans have this fixation on race. And it's not going anywhere. I do understand that poverty and race do go hand in hand in the US still. But still...
Yes, you wrote that. But let's say we have a marginalized group like "middle-age to eldelry single males with low income". Not easy for them to get in...
Milosevic is a bit different issue because that started totally from the incapability of the Yugoslav states, mainly because of Milosevic, to break up...
Yet isn't the problem that your talking about groups, focusing and upholding groups and not individuals? Really, I think it always starts with the for...
It's really nice when cities turn green. And in many ways city planning has improved especially from the 50's and 60's. But the most important thing i...
Did the EU aim to expand Southwards??? I know Turkey was a possibility, but I've not heard about Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt or Libya anytime bei...
Then it's confusing. Because then those who say they are fighting racism are basically also upholding it. At least I try to treat people as individual...
Yes. There is a very successful political ideology called social democracy. It's so successful, that most who call themselves socialist absolutely hat...
Yes. After the Soviet Union collapsed, there was truly a historical opening for Russia to integrate to West. Then Russians were truly open for the Wes...
That's the first dividing line with well to do countries and others. There is no so cohesion, nobody will help a stranger. Seeing abandoned children i...
When we do muster the political will, the standard response is that it isn't enough. We sideline positive news. Our critical media is showing us where...
It means that they changed their socialism to controlled capitalism, basically fascism, and then they got their take off. The Great Leap or the Cultur...
When it comes to the actual climate change, it's absolute emissions that ACTUALLY DO MATTER, as you said later. Otherwise Qatar would be far more impo...
Capitalism has made few far more richer than others, but it also has improved our prosperity far more than central planning of socialism ever did. Wor...
Is it really hard to understand that extreme povetry, that you really don't have anything, is different from relative poverty, that you have less than...
Really? In a time when things have gotten better for humans and for human life, this is the typical grandstanding that is so welcome today in order fo...
Sometimes it's clearly the other way around: https://img.theweek.in/content/dam/week/news/sci-tech/images/2020/9/26/peacock.jpg https://upload.wikimed...
War is used as to define serious dedicated engagement and that the issue tackled is extremely important and if not solved even an existential threat. ...
It's pretty outrageous to even consider that being poor in a rich western country is the same as being poor in Third World country. So no: absolute po...
Actually, it is. People who are poor in the US (or Finland) would be quite rich in the Democratic republic of Congo. You see, from the global perspect...
There is a pattern in Afghanistan of rulers trying to install modernity and not being successful with it. After Daud the Saur revolution led to a lot ...
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